Process of transferring a traveling web from a pull roll to an empty core

Claim 1

In a process for continuously winding a web, the steps of transferring the advancing web from a fully wound roll to an empty core wherein the cores are mounted on a turret with each core rotatable about its own axis and also rotatable about the common turret axis, said transferring steps consisting essentially of: a. driving a first core about its axis to wind the web onto the first core and form a roll; b. driving an empty second core about its axis; c. rotating the turret to advance the second core into the path of the web so that the traveling web partially wraps the rotating second core while spanning the distance between and traveling to the roll forming on the first core; d. deflecting a portion of the web between the first and second cores substantially increasing the web wrap around the second core; e. removing the driving torque from the second core permitting the second core to idle while the web continues to travel to the first core; f. severing the web between the first core and the second core, in the deflected portion wrapped around and near the surface of the second core, so as to terminate the web traveling to the first core and to establish a leading edge on the traveling web; g. urging the leading edge on the web to follow the surface of the second core as the second core idly rotates; and thereafter h. applying torque to positively drive the newly started second core initiating the formation of a new roll of web on the second core.